“Good times gone, but you feed it Hate’s grown strong, you feel you need it Just one thing, do you know you? What you think, that the world owes you? What’s gonna set you free? Look inside and you’ll see When you’ve got so much to say it’s called gratitude And that’s right” –Beastie Boys, […]

My recent double dip into the Marvin Gaye discography was a welcome return home for me. When The Adios Lounge began 6 years ago, I envisioned it as a place where I’d explore classic R&B and country more or less equally with whatever rock band I was currently obsessing over. However, within the first […]

“Looky here Little Caney, honey don’t you cry You know we’re all going to die someday And the hand of another you’ll be holding tight When you walk out to the site where I lay” On February 2, my father passed away at the age of 80. A simple cold turned into bronchitis, which […]

Today would’ve been Levon Helm‘s 72nd birthday. Such a weird, humbling sentence to write. Following his death on April 19, my original plan was to survey his entire career, which in retrospect was absurdly ambitious. I still may do some smaller version of that, but the survey vacuum was quickly filled by the internet, with […]